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Sunday, August 28, 2016

Baar Bar Dekho never seems to stop surprising us. Breaking the marketing template, have a never seen before producers round table conference and now releasing beautiful Baar Baar Dekho moments each day has sure had the tempo going high!

In an recent development , the makers of Baar Baar Dekho have been flooded with requests of Kala Chashma's worn by Sidharth and Katrina.

Keeping in mind the craze for the music, the makers have finally decided to put out he Kala Chashma's worn by the lead pair Sidharth Malhotra and Katrina Kaif.

Kala Chashma has been touted to be a party anthem and has been an instant rage!

Social Media has been flooded with videos of people dancing to the tunes of Kala Chashma has been doing rounds. The song was released before the trailer and has made its way to topping chart busters all over.

Stay hooked to make sure you don't miss the chance to grab those rocking Kala Chashma's! More details up soon!

Baar Baar Dekho is produced by Excel Entertainment and Dharma Productions, directed by debutante Nitya Mehra. The film is scheduled for a worldwide release on 9 September 2016.

Akshay is tied with Hollywood heartthrob Pitt for the 10th position with earnings of USD 31.5 million. 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan' Salman is ranked 14th on the list with earnings of USD 28.5 million, ahead of Oscar-winning actor Leonardo Dicaprio, who is ranked 15th with earnings of USD 27 million and 'Independence Day' star Will Smith who comes in on the 17th spot with USD 20.5 million.

The list of the top-earning actors comes days after Forbes released the list of the highest-paid actresses in the world.

Deepika Padukone, 30, made her debut among world's top 10 highest paid actresses, with earnings of USD 10 million. She was the only Indian actress and the sole newcomer in the list, coming in on the 10th spot.

Noting the gender pay gap in the Indian movie industry, "a discrepancy not uncommon in Hollywood", Forbes had said though a Indian male star might earn close to USD 5 million a movie, prominent Indian actresses rarely clear USD 1 million a film.

Apart from earning more, men in movies also have longer careers than the top-earning women, Forbes said adding that 95 per cent of the highest-paid actors are over 40, compared with half of the actresses.

In Forbes' rankings, all of the highest-paid actresses are under 50, while 45 per cent of the actors are 50-plus, with Ford and Bachchan in their 70s.

On Shah Rukh Khan, Forbes said he continues to rule Bollywood box office, and earns multimillion-dollars upfront fees and a cut of the back end for his efforts.

"He also cashes in on endorsement deals for dozes of brands most Americans have likely never heard of," it said.

Akshay banked top rupee for his hit films. "The action star bolsters his earnings endorsing a wider range of products than most Hollywood shills," Forbes said.

It described the 'Sultan' superstar as "one of Bollywood's leading men," who makes top rupee from films such as 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan' and numerous endorsements.

Forbes also noted Salman's 2015 sentence of five years, which was later suspended, in a hit-and-run case.

On Bachchan, Forbes said the 73-year-old is "busy as ever" and the stalwart has starred in more than 150 movies in a career that spans five decades.

Johnson, also known as 'The Rock', elbowed out reigning Downey Jr to become the world's highest-paid actor and scored his biggest ever annual paycheck in the process.

Johnson's USD 64.5 million payday more than doubled his 2015 earnings, making him this year's biggest dollar gainer, Forbes said.

The erstwhile wrestler's millions came from upfront fees for movies including 'Central Intelligence' and 'Fast 8', as well as the forthcoming Baywatch.

He bested second-ranked Jackie Chan (USD 61 million), who mints money with movies in China, and Matt Damon (3), who tallied USD 55 million largely off the success of 'The Martian'.

Rounding out the top five is perennial list member Tom Cruise at the number four spot with earnings of USD 53 million dollars and Johnny Depp at the fifth with USD 48 million.

Thursday, August 18, 2016

The power of Shivaay is ruling the digital world. The trailer of Ajay Devgn's directorial venture, Shivaay is the very first Bollywood trailer to have crossed 12M in less than 3 days (YouTube + Facebook). As of yesterday, the 10th day of the trailer launch, this trailer has set an unprecedented benchmark of 25 Million+ views on YouTube, Facebook and Hotstar and 7 lakhs likes.

The viewer engagement on this trailer has kept everyone on the edge of their seat and apart from receiving B-Town appreciation, it is also being appreciated by the international media.

Such is the power of Shivaay- that if one trailer has set so many records, imagine what the entire film can do.

If a true Indian beauty has a synonym, that has to be nobody but Deepika Padukone.

In her recent conversation with a magazine famous in the west , "Vanity Fair " she confessed how she would ,if given a chance love to step out in a sari as compared to a gown.

Deepika is known for carrying the Indian look and the western chick look with complete ease. She believes that clothes should be comfortable, be it at red carpet or at home.

In an interview with Vanity Fair Deepika said " Its always important for clothes to be an extension to your personality. My most favorite garment is the Sari. If I had a choice between a gown and a sari , I would wear a sari. "

In fact she is seen wearing a Sari more often than her contemporaries. Her Instagram account too is filled with pictures of her donning the Indian avatar.

The Bollywood Diva is gearing up for her Hollywood release of xXx: The Return of Xander Cage-in which she plays the lead female role opposite Vin Diesel.

Sunday, August 7, 2016

When it comes to redefining hotness Sunny knows how to raise the bar every time. And if we go by the recent reports then Sunny is at it again.

As per reports recently celeb photographer Dabboo Ratnani got this pretty lady to pose for a calendar and it goes without saying that Sunny turned the calendar shoot into a sizzle-fest with her appeal.

There is no denying the fact Sunny is the most known face of the porn world and her transition into Bollywood films has been phenomenal, and long list, of her upcoming flicks like 'Beiimaan Love', 'Tina & Lolo', 'Tera Intizaar' and SRK's 'Raees', is one of the conspicuous proof of the same.

But before the release of her these much-awaited flicks of the year, Sunny is here to make your eyeballs rove with her super hot bikinilious stint.

As per reports this photoshoot was done for a popular condom brand, and if hearsay is something to go by then it suggests that Sunny has charged a whopping 3 crores for this shoot.

Hrithik Roshan who visited the capital city, Delhi along with co-star Pooja Hegde to promote his upcoming film Mohenjo Daro gave an impromptu gift to a girl fan on learning about it being her birthday.

The Mohenjo Daro team visited a Gargi Girl's College in Delhi on Friday.

There was a frenzy when Hrithik reached the premises of the college.

Both Hrithik and Pooja had a fun interaction with the college student present.

A few girls even joined Hrithik and Pooja on stage as they danced to the tunes of Mohenjo Daro.

It was during this time that a girl fan told Hrithik that it was her birthday and expressed her wish to dance with the Superstar.

On learning about the girl's special day, Hrithik wished her and immediately got to shaking a leg with her on his much loved song, Senorita from Zindagi Na Milegi Doobara.

The actor matched steps with the young girl while grooving with the young college girl.

Hrithik's sweet gesture, sure made the girl's day who's wish came true in an instant.

The actor along with the Mohenjo Daro team is on a promotional spree for his upcoming film, Mohenjo Daro.

The film's rushes prove that Mohenjo Daro is set to be a complete entertainer with action and romance in abundance in addition to Hrithik Roshan and his exhilarating dancing combined by the freshness brought to celluloid by Pooja Hedge, all under Ashutosh Gowariker's direction.

Ashutosh Gowariker's Mohenjo Daro is an action-romance set in the Pre historic Era of Mohenjo Daro, a subject which intrigues many children and teenagers in a perfect blend of a story which is to leave the adults and the children, touched with romance and thrilled with action.

Mohenjo Daro is touted to be the one of the most anticipated movies of 2016 as we can see the Rahman, Ashutosh and Hrithik triumvirate after Jodhaa Akbar.

Presented by UTV Motion Pictures and Ashutosh Gowariker Productions, produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur and Sunita Gowariker, the film will release worldwide on 12th August, 2016.

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Classical Hollywood cinema

Classical Hollywood cinema or the classical Hollywood narrative,[1] are terms used in film history which designate both a visual and sound style for making motion pictures and a mode of production used in the American film industry between 1927 and 1963. This period is often referred to as the "golden age of Hollywood." An identifiable cinematic form emerged during this period called classical Hollywood style.[2]

Classical style is fundamentally built on the principle of continuity editing or "invisible" style. That is, the camera and the sound recording should never call attention to themselves (as they might in films from earlier periods, other countries or in a modernist or postmodernistwork).

The golden age[edit]

During the golden age of Hollywood, which lasted from the end of the silent era in American cinema in the late 1920s to the early 1960s, films were prolifically issued by the Hollywood studios.[3] The start of the golden age was arguably when The Jazz Singer was released in 1927 and increased box-office profits for films as sound was introduced to feature films. Most Hollywood pictures adhered closely to a genre—Western, slapstick comedy, musical, animated cartoon, biopic (biographical picture)—and the same creative teams often worked on films made by the same studio. For instance, Cedric Gibbons and Herbert Stothart always worked on MGM films, Alfred Newman worked at Twentieth Century Fox for twenty years, Cecil B. DeMille's films were almost all made at Paramount, director Henry King's films were mostly made for Twentieth-Century Fox, etc.

After The Jazz Singer was released in 1927, Warner Brothers gained huge success and was able to acquire its own string of movie theatres, after purchasing Stanley Theatres and First National Productions in 1928; MGM had also owned a string of theatres since forming in 1924, known as Loews Theatres, and the Fox film Corporation owned the Fox Theatrestrings as well. Also, RKO, another company that owned theatres, had formed in 1928 from a merger between Keith-Orpheum Theaters and the Radio Corporation of America[3].

RKO formed in response to the monopoly Western Electric's ERPI had over sound in films as well, and began to use sound in films through their own method known as Photophone [5]. Paramount, who already acquired Balaban and Katz in 1926, would answer to the success of Warner Bros. and RKO, and buy a number of theaters in the late 1920s as well, before making their final purchase in 1929, through acquiring all the individual theaters belonging to the Cooperative Box Office, located in Detroit, and dominate the Detroit theaters.[4]

However, filmmaking was still a business and motion picture companies made money by operating under the studio system. The major studios kept thousands of people on salary—actors, producers, directors, writers, stunt men, craftspersons and technicians. And they owned hundreds of theaters in cities and towns across America, theaters that showed their films and that were always in need of fresh material. In 1930, MPDDA President Will Hays also founded the Hays (Production) Code, which followed censorship guidelines and went into effect after government threats of censorship expanded by 1930. [6] However the code was never enforced until 1934, after the new Catholic Church organization TheLegion of Decency—appalled by Mae West's very successful sexual appearances in She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel [7]—threatened a boycott of motion pictures if it did not go into effect [8], and those that didn't obtain a seal of approval from the Production Code Administration had to pay a $25,000 fine and could not profit in the theaters, as the MPDDA owned every theater in the country through the Big Five studios [9].

Throughout the early 1930s, risque films and salacious advertising, became widespread in the short period known as Pre-Code Hollywood. MGM dominated the industry and had the top stars in Hollywood, and was also credited for creating the Hollywood star system altogether[10]. MGM stars included at various times "King of Hollywood" Clark Gable, Joan Fontaine, Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gary Cooper, Mary Pickford, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, James Stewart, Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Vivien Leigh, Grace Kelly, Gene Kelly, Gloria Stuart, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, John Wayne, Barbara Stanwyck, John Barrymore, Audrey Hepburn and Buster Keaton [11]. Another great achievement of American cinema during this era came throughWalt Disney's animation. In 1937, Disney created the most successful film of its time, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [12].

Many film historians have remarked upon the many great works of cinema that emerged from this period of highly regimented film-making. One reason this was possible is that, with so many films being made, not every one had to be a big hit. A studio could gamble on a medium-budget feature with a good script and relatively unknown actors: Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles and often regarded as the greatest film of all time, fits that description. In other cases, strong-willed directors like Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock andFrank Capra battled the studios in order to achieve their artistic visions. The apogee of the studio system may have been the year 1939, which saw the release of such classics asThe Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Destry Rides Again,Young Mr. Lincoln, Wuthering Heights, Only Angels Have Wings,Ninotchka, Babes in Arms, Gunga Din, and The Roaring Twenties. Among the other films from the golden age period that are now considered to be classics: Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood, It's a Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night, King Kong, Citizen Kane, Swing Time, Some Like It Hot, A Night at the Opera, All About Eve, Mildred Pierce, The Searchers, Breakfast At Tiffany's, North by Northwest, Dinner at Eight, Rebel Without a Cause, Rear Window, Double Indemnity, Mutiny on the Bounty, City Lights,Red River, The Manchurian Candidate, Bringing Up Baby, Singin' in the Rain, To Have and Have Not, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Roman Holiday, Giant and Jezebel.